August 2024 - Corpora

Last CfP (submission deadline on August 9th) - OM-2024: The 19th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC2024
by Huanyu Li 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*****We apologize for possible cross-posting***** *************** Last Call for Papers *************** The 19th International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2024) http://om.ontologymatching.org/2024/ November 11th or 12th, 2024, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA. BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2024 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2024 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 6 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 3 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the CEUR-ART, 1-column style. Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt, while offline version with the style files is available from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2024 Contributors to the OAEI 2024 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 30th, 2024: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 9th, 2024: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 11th or 12th, 2024: OM-2024, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France 6. Sven Hertling FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany 7. Huanyu Li Linköping University, Sweden PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, INESC-ID&IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulić, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Giorgos Stoilos, University of Oxford, UK Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondřej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ -------------------------------------------------------

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Final call: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) – Call for Presentations and Papers
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Deadline: 31 July 2024 TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for Presentations and Papers https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ "Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration, inspiration" Embracing innovation in language technologies - From AI to traditional practices -, TC46 welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics related to language technologies in the provision of language services. While there is a special emphasis on the advancements and implications of AI and Generative AI, we strongly encourage contributions that cover a wide range of interests and perspectives in the language services field. Whether you are deeply involved in AI-driven projects or are focused on traditional or emerging practices independent of AI, your insights are invaluable. * Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 31 July * Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August

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CfP: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum @ COLING 2025)
by Tristan Miller 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) ================================================================ The 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) will take place virtually on January 19 or 20, 2025 (exact date TBD) as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025). Scope and topics ---------------- CHum 2025 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimodal materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite researchers who can together probe the limits of various meaning representations -- symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor processing. We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational processing of humor, including but not limited to the following: * LLMs, knowledge representation * Resources and evaluation * Human-computer interaction * Computer-mediated communication * Assisted content creation * Machine and computer-assisted translation * Digital humanities applications * Formal modeling of humor * Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and position papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future of computational humor systems. Submission instructions ----------------------- Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same guidelines for the main COLING 2025 conference papers <https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/> and submitted through START: <https://softconf.com/coling2025/CompHum25/> Important dates --------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Initial submission: November 15, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: December 2, 2024 * Camera-ready submission: December 13, 2024 * Workshop: January 19 or 20, 2025 Organizers ---------- * Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce * Julia Rayz, Purdue University * Tiansi Dong, Fraunhofer IAIS * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba Further information ------------------- * Website: <https://chum2025.github.io/> * E-mail: chum(a)groups.io -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Fourth Inria-DFKI European Summer School on AI (IDESSAI 2024)
by simon.ostermann＠dfki.de 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*******************************************************************   Fourth Inria-DFKI European Summer School on AI (IDESSAI 2024) Large AI Models and Robotics and AI Saarbrücken, Germany September 9th - September 13th, 2024 https://idessai.eu/ Registration deadline: August 23th, 2024 ******************************************************************* IDESSAI 2024 is the fourth yearly Summer School organized by the two renowned German and French AI institutes, DFKI and Inria. It stands out from the crowd of offerings for AI students in several aspects: We ensure a good balance in the number of participants and instructors: participants will have the opportunity to join a community of like-minded people, and, at the same time, they will be in close contact with the experts. Our program features a line-up of courses focused on two themes, Large AI Models, and Robotics and AI, which are at the forefront of socio-economic issues related to AI. On top of the latest methodological advances and the shared vision of the future that both organizing institutes have to offer, IDESSAI 2024 will be practically oriented. We will achieve this through hands-on courses and the involvement of industry practitioners and innovators. Participants will be offered to the opportunity to present their work to each other in dedicated poster/demo sessions. Large AI Models and Robotic and AI will take place in two parallel tracks. There will be plenty of opportunities to exchange between these two tracks at coffee breaks, meals, and social events, as well as through joint cross-track sessions. TARGETED AUDIENCE IDESSAI 2024 was designed for PhD students in all areas of AI, including machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, search and optimisation, planning and scheduling, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, robotics, computer vision, and other areas. PhD students in other fields, MSc students, postdocs, and researchers in academia and industry are also welcome. VENUE IDESSAI 2024 is planned as a fully in-person event, which will take place at the University of Saarland. Remote attendance will not be possible. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Keynotes: Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI) – Industrial AI for Smart Manufacturing Karën Fort (Université de Lorraine) - Ethics in Natural Language Processing: don't look up! Kai Warsönke und Henrik Waschke (Volkswagen) - Increasing product quality in the automotive industry through the Virtual Measurement Data Analysis (VMDA) Xavier Hinaut (Inria) - BrainGPT: Tailoring Transformers into Cognitive Language Models Large AI Models: Christophe Cerisara (CNRS) - Introduction to Large Language Malte Ostendorff (Deutsche Telekom) – Training Data for Large Language Models Christophe Cerisara (CNRS) - Efficient LLM training Mariya Toneva (MPI) - Relating LLMs to human brains Jindong Gu (Google Deep Mind) - Responsible Generative AI Marc Lelarge (Inria) - LLMs for code Gerit Großmann und Islam Mesabah (DFKI) - Language Models and Structured Knowledge in AI Alexandre Défossez (Kyutai) - Auto-regressive modeling of discrete audio tokens Robotics and AI: Daniel Porta (DFKI) - Digital twins for AI-based industrial applications Pia Bideau (Inria) - Navigating Together: Integrating Analytical and Learning-Based Approaches for Distance Estimation Marie-Odile Berger (Inria) - AI for computer vision: using high level features for localization RICAIP-Day Xiaomei Xu – Hands-On Robotic-Course - Multi-Robot Simulation using Siemens Tecnomatix Martin Suda und Miklas Janota (CIIRC Prague) - Powering Logic-Based Reasoning with Machine Learning and Vice Versa? Tim Schwartz (DFKI) – Practical Tour through the German-Czech Innovation Lab for Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrie 4.0 (MRK 4.0 Lab) Maurice Rekrut und Marc Tabie (NEARBY/DFKI) - The NEARBY Project - Variabilities in Brain-Computer Interfaces – Towards applying BCIs in real-world applications FEES AND REGISTRATION Our fees are all-inclusive. Please keep in mind that an accommodation must be organised on your own and paid by your own. For more details and to register, see https://idessai.eu/registration-2024/ (deadline: August 23th, 2024). To ensure a good balance in the number of participants and instructors and maximize the chances of interaction, the number of attendees is limited to 50 per track. Applicants will be selected on the grounds of diversity and benefit gained from attending the selected track. ORGANIZERS Co-organized by: Inria, DFKI Contact us: idessai-support(a)dfki.de.

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Call for Proposals CoNLL Shared Task 2025
by Fokkens, A.S. (Antske) 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

SIGNLL (ACL's Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning) invites proposals for the CoNLL Shared Task 2025. Background Since 1999, CoNLL (the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning) has regularly included a shared task in which training and test data are provided by the organizers, which allows participating systems to be evaluated and compared in a systematic way. Descriptions of the participating systems and an evaluation of their performance are presented both at the conference and in the proceedings. Previous shared tasks Previous shared tasks have been devoted to: * Chunking (1999, 2000) * Clause identifications (2001) * Named entity recognition (2002, 2003) * Semantic role labeling (2004, 2005) * Dependency parsing (2006, 2007) * Joint parsing of syntactic and semantic dependencies (2008, 2009) * Hedge detection (2010) * Co-reference resolution (2011, 2012) * Grammatical error correction (2013, 2014) * Universal morphological reinflection (2017, 2018) * Multilingual parsing from raw text to universal dependencies (2017, 2018) * Cross-framework Meaning Representation Parsing (2019, 2020) * BabyLM Challenge (2023) Submission guidelines For CoNLL-2025 proposals are invited for any shared task involving natural language learning and processing, that will directly contribute to theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics (rather than driven by particular engineering applications). Proposals should contain the following information: * Names and affiliations of the members of the organizing committee (including a designated contact person). * Description of the shared task, including its relevance to theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics. * Description of the process for selecting, acquiring and preparing the data for training and evaluation, including conditions of availability. * Description of the procedure for evaluating the performance of participating systems, including the availability of evaluation software. * Description of any ethical or licensing issues that may arise from the organization and participation in the proposed task. * Any other relevant information. The exact timeline of the shared task will be determined according to the venue CoNLL will be collocated with (either NAACL, ACL or EMNLP; aiming for ACL). Proposals should be submitted by October 1, 2024. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to proposals(a)signll.org, from the email of the contact person, with the subject “CoNLL-2025 Shared Task Proposal”. A tentative timeline for the CoNLL Shared Task 2025 is as follows: * October 1, 2024: deadline for proposals * October 15, 2024: confirmation of acceptance * December 15, 2024: first version of task website online * December 15, 2024: first call for papers out * January 30, 2019: all trial datasets (plus documentation and scorer) available * February 15, 2025: test data available * April 15, 2025: test phase ends * April 22, 2025: submission of system description papers Proposals should make clear that a similar schedule can be implemented, especially for the preparation of resources (trial/training/development/test data sets). Proposals should be 2 to 3 pages long, in PDF format. We encourage proposers to include appendices with examples that help understanding the data and type of evaluation. Proposals will be reviewed by the SIGNLL steering committee. Proposers might be contacted during the reviewing period to provide further information. Potential proposers should feel free to indicate the intention to submit by emailing proposals(a)signll.org. We are also happy to answer your questions about the process, or to solicit early feedback for a proposal. -- prof. dr. Antske Fokkens University Research Chair Computational Linguistic Methods Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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BrPoliCorpus - Brazilian Portuguese Political Corpus V 1.0
by Lima-Lopes, Rodrigo Esteves de 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

<https://github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus> Dear Colleagues, I’d like to introduce BrPoliCorpus <https://github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus>, my current project. It comprises 441.644.155 million words and is an open data set of Brazilian political documents. It is intended to be useful for linguists and political scientists. At this project stage, distribution is via the R package or freely downloadable spreadsheets. The spreadsheets contain the texts and all the metadata, which is useful for context. The datasets include: - Ordinary congress floor sessions - Ordinary congress committees - CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) - Presidential inaugural speeches - Government programmes for the offices of Governor and President of the Republic Here is a breakdown of its current status: Doc Types Tokens CPI 2615392 4563382 Parliamentary Committees 7985000 108251624 Floor Parliamentary speeches 3423405 322893136 Gov. Programmes 688342 5849807 Inaugural Speeches 31959 86206 Total 14.744.098 441.644.155 The corpus is available here <https://github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus>. Please, contact me if any further information is needed. All the best, Rodrigo *---* *Dr Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes* *Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) * Livre Docente em Linguagem e Tecnologia Professor Associado *||* Associate Professor Depto. de Linguística Aplicada *|| *Dept. of Applied Linguistics CV (Português) <http://lattes.cnpq.br/1654734521861377> *||* ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-1553> *||* Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=q1V4jksAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR> rll307(a)unicamp.br

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Call for Participation for FEL XXVIII 2024 -- 25-27(+28) September 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan
by Steven Krauwer 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for Participation for FEL XXVIII 2024 Registration for the 28th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25-27(+28) September 2024, in Islamabad, Pakistan, is now open! The conference is organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and the Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI), in collaboration with Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad. The main theme of FELXXVIII is “Endangered Languages and Oral Traditions” See the conference website for more information about the theme: https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for-endangered-lan… About the programme: - Keynote and submitted presentations on 25-27 September - Excursion on 28 September - Provisional list of accepted papers: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2024/FEL2024-accepted-abstracts.pdf About registration: - You can register for in person or on-line participation - Information about fees: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2024/FEL2024-registration-info.php - We offer special rates for FEL members and Pakistan residents - Registration link: https://vonweber.nl/fel/registration_form.html FEL Organizing Committee: - Maya Khemlani David - Eda Derhemi - Hakim Elnazarov - Fazal Hadi - Steven Krauwer - Salem Mezhoud - Christopher Moseley - Mujahid Torwali (Chair) Islamabad Organizing Committee: - Abdul Aziz Sahir - Malik Ajmal Gulzar - Muhammad Kamal Khan (Chair) - Fakhruddin Akhunzada - Furrakh Abbas - Shams Wali Khan - Ubaidullah Khan - Saira Maqbool - Ejaz Ahmad - Rashida Imran - Hina Khan - Munir Ahmad - Amir Haider More information: - For venue, travel, visa, accommodation visit the conference website: https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for-endangered-lan… - Visa applications to be submitted at least 6 weeks before the event! - Contact the local organisers at: felconf2024.islamabad(a)gmail.com -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl

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Amazon Postdoc in NLP and LLMs
by Shervin Malmasi 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

We have postdoc positions focusing on applying LLMs, NLP/IR, and graph techniques to real-world problems around Amazon's retail business. Job posting: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2706036 Please feel free to reach out with any questions: malmasi(a)amazon.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalmasi Thank you, Shervin

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Data released for PLABA 2024 @ TREC
by Ondov, Brian 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Training and testing data are now available for the 2024 Plain Language Adaptation of Biomedical Abstracts<https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/plaba2024/> track at TREC<https://trec.nist.gov>. The PLABA task is to rewrite biomedical abstracts, line by line, in plain language for the general public. This includes: - Simplifying and splitting sentences - Replacing or omitting jargon - Providing further background where appropriate This year, PLABA also has new subtask—expert term replacement. This includes: - Identifying expert terms - Classifying how they should be replaced (explained, substituted, generalized, exemplified, or omitted) - Generating replacement text for the terms As this subtask does not require generation of complete documents, we hope it will allow for participation with fewer compute resources. By participating in PLABA, you will get: - Access to a unique, manually annotated expert term replacement dataset - Manual evaluations of system outputs by science communication experts Further information Task descriptions: https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/plaba2024/ Registration: https://ir.nist.gov/evalbase/ Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/plaba2024 Due dates Aug 30 - Task 2 (abstract rewriting) submissions due Sep 15 - Task 1 (term replacement) submissions due We look forward to your submissions!

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[CFP] NLP4Science workshop at EMLP 2024
by Roi Reichart 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Background and Scope --------------------- The NLP4Science workshop invites submissions of papers that leverage NLP tools and methodologies for human-focused scientific modeling. As language is closely tied to human behavior, cognition, and communication, many researchers are turning to NLP to decode intricate patterns and gain meaningful insights into humanity. NLP tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping research methodologies across a wide range of fields, including social science, psychology, psychiatry, psycholinguistics, health, neuroscience, finance, behavioral economics, political science, and more. This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers to focus on how NLP tools can be harnessed for scientific modeling and exploration. We offer a platform for exchanging knowledge, methodologies, findings, tools, and resources, fostering synergies across different scientific domains. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions that encompass shared scientific methodologies across various disciplines. Topics will include, but are not limited to: principles of NLP-driven human-centered scientific modeling, state-of-the-art methods for statistically robust evaluation of NLP models in science, experimental design, causal inference, and the development and application of model interpretation and causality-based methods for text models in science. The workshop will be held as part of EMNLP in November 2024 in Miami, Florida. ===Important Dates=== Paper submission deadline: August 16, 2024 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2024 ===Submission Topics=== We will solicit novel papers, including, but not limited to the following topics: - NLP and LLMs for scientific modeling in various fields - Social science - Psychology - Psychiatry - Psycholinguistics - Health - Neuroscience - Finance - Behavioral economics - Political science - Statistically robust evaluation of NLP models in science - NLP Experimental design - Causal inference - Model Interpretability ===Submission Information=== We will be using the EMNLP Submission Guidelines for the workshop. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages of content with unlimited pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages of content, including unlimited pages for references. Final camera ready versions of accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Submit your work here: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/NLP4Science ===Contact Information=== - Workshop contact email address: nlp4science [at] gmail.com - Workshop Twitter: @nlp4science Read more: <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4science/home> https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4science/home

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